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07-14-2009, 07:25 AM
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It's all in the timing
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Location: Lake Mary,Florida
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Home Welding Rig
Looking to buy a welder in a couple of weeks and was wondering what others are using for their resto projects.Just looking for something for the home shop but not sure what rig to buy.
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07-14-2009, 07:38 AM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
typically a 135 or 140 AMP 110 DC mig welder will do, unless you plan on fabbing a frame. Hobart, miller, lincoln. I am using a 135 amp northern tools brand welder and have not had any issues
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07-14-2009, 08:17 AM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
I use a 130 miller,110 volt,with the gas.Real nice little welder. I also use a miller 250 Vintage for the larger stuff.The duty cycle is shorter on the 130, but it welds up to 3/16 nice.Good luck!
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07-14-2009, 09:04 AM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
I have a Lincoln Weldpak 3200HD. Gas or fluxcore, 140 amps, 110 volts, I'm pretty happy with it.
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07-14-2009, 11:44 AM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
love my miller welder!! Buy the most welder you can afford. You will not be sorry.
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07-14-2009, 02:01 PM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
I love my Lincoln. Again, get the best you can afford & go ahead & get the CO2 setup so you can do MIG & not just flux core. MIG is much much cleaner & much better suited to auto body work. (Make sure that whatever you buy comes with a regulator/gauges, otherwise keep looking).
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07-14-2009, 07:16 PM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
Miller has a great website to help you get more info.I'm not saying buy a Miller but use the info they provide to help decide what welder works for you.I don't have a link but it should be on any search engine.They also have ongoing articles on welding to help you improve your skills.
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07-14-2009, 09:40 PM
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Re: Home Welding Rig
Sooner or later you will have to get it serviced unless you just flat don't use it much and Millers, Hobarts and Lincolns are the three that you can usually get serviced readily.
The Millers are usually sold by welding supply houses and that is where you have to take any welder you buy to have repairs done or usually buy expendables. I've got a Lincoln 175 that I picked up barely used for the on sale price around here for a Hobart 140. We had to put 220 in the garage to use it though. One advantage to a 110 rig is that it is a lot easier to plug it in and with a decent extension cord you can get pretty mobile around the home front. My buddy rolled his Miller Sidekick out to the front of his place to weld up a steel pipe fence he built across the front. He also has welded everything from chopped tops to his wrecker boom with that 110V Sidekick. |
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07-14-2009, 09:49 PM
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Location: Forney TX
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Re: Home Welding Rig
Stick with name brand and make sure when you buy you can get parts like leads and drive wheels at your local supply store because alot of cheaper welders you cant get leads for like mine so I have to be real careful but its getting me buy for now till I can get a miller or hobart 220.
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07-15-2009, 10:35 AM
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It's all in the timing
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Lake Mary,Florida
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Re: Home Welding Rig
Thanks for all the responses and all the usefull info.Yall cleared up alot of questions I had about them.I now have a much clearer picture of what to look for in a welder.Thanks again,Mike
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